Hillcrest Venture Partners

Branded Online, Inc. (BOL) is a dynamic technology company that delivers enterprise-class ecommerce, marketing, and logistics solutions to brands. BOL helps brands reach their potential by delivering scalable growth, effective marketing, and operational efficiencies. By offering world-class technology and solutions, our clients gain the control, scalability, growth, and cost savings they need to compete with the largest retailers on earth. Since 1999 Branded Online has become a trusted partner to some of the world’s leading fashion brands. The company specializes in providing the technology, infrastructure, and operational services needed to continuously drive commerce, improve customer engagement, and better address the complexities inherent in high-performing omni-channel commerce operations.

VirtuLocity Networks Inc. is a Silicon Valley start-up focused on making your Internet and cloud connectivity faster. Their software has been tested and proven around the world by Content Distributed Network providers (CDN's), carrier operators, cable MSO's, and mobile phone providers to improve their end customer's network connections.

MomentFeed is a unified platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands at the local level. The company's marketing and customer experience management platform enables multi-location brands to influence consumers on mobile. It manages and automates each and all of the local-mobile search triggers via its Unified Platform, and helps multi-location brands influence their Proximity Search Optimization to make them more visible across all local discovery channels, ultimately leading to more customers and foot traffic, and increased revenue.

NS8 is a comprehensive fraud prevention platform that combines behavioral analytics, real-time scoring, and global monitoring to help online businesses minimize risk. Its patented scoring technology provides actionable data about the type, quality, and trustworthiness of transactions, which businesses leverage to automate fraud management workflows to suit their individual needs.

Phizzle EDGMaker - Unlocking & Digitizing the Most Valuable Scientific Data in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. ​ Phizzle is the only IoT solution to remotely operate and automate multi-vendor particle counters for scientific data applications in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Clear Air, and Food Manufacturing. The EDGMaker software stack offers fully digitized testing and compliance processes to reduce labor, human error, and wasted batches in regulated manufacturing. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Notion is a smart self-monitoring system that empowers home and property owners to be proactive in protecting their spaces, people, and possessions. The company offers data analytics, intuitive user experience, and an all-in-one, the oreo-sized sensor that allows for real-time alerts ranging from motion and temperature to water leaks and alarms so that customers can be notified of issues at home instantly. The company was established by Brett Jurgens and Ryan Margoles in 2013 and it is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

The world is more interconnected than ever before – including the machines in our daily lives. The cost of buying, maintaining and powering those machines is financial, social, and environmental. As an IoT innovator in smart buildings and connected machines we control, manage, and monitor assets such as HVAC, lighting, refrigeration, industrial and consumer facing machines to do smart things such alert, measure and command to automatically correct or predict the need for service. At Phoenix Energy Technologies, we enable retailers, universities, grocery stores, theaters and many other industries to accomplish their savings goals by providing best-in-class software that monitors and controls assets with minimal additional hardware.

QuickFire™ addresses one of the most vexing problems facing the Cloud today, namely its inability to keep pace with the explosion of consumer demand for compute-intensive services. Traditional data center appliances relying on Moore’s Law for incremental 2x improvements cannot meet today’s 10-100x growth requirements.

Departing is an ISO for the death care industry. Through both brick and mortar channels along with an online portal we aid consumers in planning, saving and paying for their death care. The death care industry is entrenched in an old way of doing business and Departing aims to disrupt this industry.

Titan Photonics is a manufacturer of electrical and electronic products. They provide products that include optical communications, telecommunications, data center interconnect, intelligent transceivers, software, and software defined optics. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.

GenieDB provides cloud MySQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) to help easily deploy MySQL database quickly, securely, and at a low cost, so can instantly get web applications running on the cloud. GenieDB’s DBaaS uses multi-master replication and multi-regional distribution on multiple cloud infrastructures (Amazon AWS, HP Cloud, Rackspace Cloud, and Google Cloud) to help reduce latency, eliminate downtime, and easily scale database. Today more and more application users are distributed around the world and demand continuous availability and fast response times, results that can only be achieved by the distribution of data across geographical regions. The largest web enterprises are spending millions of dollars architecting customized solutions in order to meet these increasing demands. GenieDB provides mainstream SMB's a readily accessible and affordable solution for geographical scale-out. By dramatically simplifying the migration of SMB's into geographically distributed cloud-based infrastructures, GenieDB brings global scalability to the mainstream. GenieDB's innovative and patent-pending approach automates and optimizes how data consistency, replication, and synchronization is managed across global networks and clouds, providing continuous availability and local database performance on a global scale. GenieDB is the earliest stage company to present at Under The Radar and Oracle Open World 2010 and was nominated and recognized as a "Start-up to Watch" at Structure 2011. GenieDB is headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California.

Codexa is developing a suite of decision-support tools to help professional investors cope effectively with the avalanche of financial information available on the Internet.